MOTIF Lab — Mobility Optimized by Traditional Ideas and Frontier technologies, University of South Florida
Mobility Optimized by Traditional Ideas and Frontier technologies — a transportation engineering research lab at the University of South Florida.
Research themes
Traffic flow theory
Macroscopic and microscopic models of how vehicles aggregate into flow, congestion, and breakdown.
Read more →Vehicle technologies and traffic impact
How ADAS, lane-keeping assist, and electric powertrains change traffic efficiency and safety at the system level.
Read more →AI for mobility
Computer vision and machine learning for traffic monitoring, road hazard detection, and operations support.
Read more →Life at MOTIF
USF Tampa, the city we drive every day, and the experiments that put new vehicle technology through its paces. If this looks like a place you'd like to be, come join us.
Recent publications
- Cut-in gap acceptance toward autonomous vs. human-driven vehicles: evidence from the Waymo Open Motion Dataset
- BATON: a multimodal benchmark for bidirectional automation transition observation in naturalistic driving
- ADAS-TO: a large-scale multimodal naturalistic dataset and empirical characterization of human takeovers during ADAS engagement
- OpenLKA: an open dataset of lane keeping assist from production vehicles under real-world driving conditions
- Bridging human oversight and black-box driver assistance: vision-language models for predictive alerting in lane keeping assist systems